American Journalistic Amenities

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 347, 23 June 1894, Page 4

American Journalistic Amenities

O The Arizona Kicker contains the following : — " All our renders will bear \ritnesß to the face thai we have exercised the greatest patience in bearing the flurs and taunts of our esteemed weekly contemporary. On three different occasions we have been perfectly justified in killing him, but we restrained our hand because we knew he owed his two compositors money, which they would lose it he ■went under ground. " We long ago decided to pay no further attention to him, no matter irhpt he aaid ; but there was an item or two in his last issue which calls lor a word of explanation from us. Our lop-cared, lop shouldered, knockkneed, slab-Bided, ramshackle, baldheaded, poverty-stricken, cross-eyed web-footed, toothless old contemporary, with an average circulation of 21? copies weekly, against our tens of thousands (see our sworn statements), says that we were ' cow-hided in our own sanctum three days ago by a lady named Miss Green, who is a music-teacher, lately arrived from Ina diana.' " His statement is an insult to a young, beautiful, and accomplished lady, who was at once accorded the entree of the best society in lie town, and who came hero with th< highest recommendations from re<\u ctabl- people. Mips Green called at tie Kicker Office on mostpeacMu. intentions. She simply and sweetlv d <^ired us to publish one of her o>iginal poems, entitled ' When the Hen's Hggs Nest again,' and we wo e thrice ialzd to do so. *• It appears on our third i age today, and we feel we cannot say too znnch in praise ot it Thus do we confound, paralyse, upset, «>.eait in two, and knock out the humitii hyena. whose spite would blacke > >u« private character before this comnumty, ami with is the fair reputation of an a .get in female clothes. Words fail to express our contempt for this inhu nan monster, but no advances will ue made in our advertising rat?s."